Meaning & use
Apocalypses
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Events involving catastrophic destruction on a massive scale, or revelations of hidden, world-altering truths.
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The film franchise imagines several different zombie apocalypses.
Ancient apocalypses in religious literature describe visions of the end of the world.
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From Greek "apokalypsis," meaning "revelation" or "uncovering" — the destructive sense developed later, from the Book of Revelation.
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cataclysmscatastrophes
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